Raph Goldacre
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Raph Goldacre
Epidemiologist, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology
Raph Goldacre is an Epidemiologist at the Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology in the Big Data Institute, working with record-linked routine health data to examine patterns in cause-specific hospitalisation and mortality in England.
Supported by Public Health England, the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and Health Data Research, Raph's research collaborations include studies of long-term time trends in hospitalisation and mortality/case-fatality (distinguishing epidemiological burden of disease, healthcare burden of disease and artefact caused by e.g. changes in data collection methods), in relation to acute and chronic non-communicable diseases, childhood infections, common surgical procedures, clinical and public health interventions, and shifts in healthcare delivery. Other research collaborations include record-linkage studies of disease-disease associations and multimorbidity; studies of variation in mortality/morbidity by geographic region, reported ethnicity, and area-level deprivation; and studies of record-linked parent-child data to investigate associations between perinatal factors and maternal/paediatric disease.
Raph holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers, and teaches on the NDPH MSc course in Global Health Science & Epidemiology and the BDI course in Hospital Episode Statistics.
Recent publications
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on secondary care for cardiovascular disease in the UK: an electronic health record analysis across three countries.
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Wright FL. et al, (2022), Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes
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Baricitinib in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial and updated meta-analysis.
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RECOVERY Collaborative Group None., (2022), Lancet, 400, 359 - 368
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COVID-19 trajectories among 57 million adults in England: a cohort study using electronic health records.
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Thygesen JH. et al, (2022), Lancet Digit Health, 4, e542 - e557
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Balancing quality and equity of access in specialist neonatal surgery: implications of the GIRFT report
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Lansdale N. et al, (2022), British Journal of Surgery
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Relative contribution of trends in myocardial infarction event rates and case fatality to declines in mortality: an international comparative study of 1·95 million events in 80·4 million people in four countries.
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Camacho X. et al, (2022), Lancet Public Health, 7, e229 - e239